This is the part I did not expect when somebody talked me into installing the game.
Free Companies, friends across data centres, the evenings that were mostly standing about in Limsa, and the ones that mattered more than they had any right to. Mostly about people. The game is what we happened to be doing at the time.
FC Life4 min read
I had a very tidy idea of where my life in Eorzea happened, and all of it was Halicarnassus. Then a handful of strangers on Cactuar founded a Free Company called El Santuario, said come over sometime, and I said yes the way you say yes to things you assume will never happen. Reader, it happened. Repeatedly.
FC Life7 min read
We met at work in 2017 and clicked inside a week. He got me into Overwatch, then spent months refusing to shut up about Final Fantasy XIV until I bought it purely to end the conversation. This is the story of the best friendship I have had in this game, and how it ended — quietly, without anybody once raising their voice.